Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner will debut a new exclusive expanded trailer from their new movie, The Twilight Saga: New Moon at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards on September 13. All three stars will take to the stage to introduce the trailer. The MTV VMAs, which will be held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, will be hosted by British comedian Russell Brand and broadcast live on MTV. Performing on the show are Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Jay-Z, Green Day, Pink and Muse. Presenters include Katy Perry, Chace Crawford, Nelly Furtado, Leighton Meester and Ne-Yo.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse director David Slade has been posting interesting shots from the set and the latest is this one of Taylor Lautner, doing a backflip. He wrote: “Taylor Lautner Pic from set, yes that is him mid backflip. He does it from standing still.” Amazing! He also gives little tidbits about what’s being shot, such as this August 24th tweet: “Shot with Rob and Kristen today, both gave great performances. Lots of frustrating noisy planes overhead but beautiful scene regardless.” If you’re on Twitter, check Slade’s page out by clicking here.

Robert Pattinson was spotted in Vancouver on the set of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse yesterday at David Thompson Secondary School. It was the first sighting of him in costume as Edward Cullen since filming began last week. He was accompanied by Ashley Greene and Jackson Rathbone, who play his sister and brother. (In Eclipse, the older two Cullen siblings, Rosalie and Emmett, have graduated from high school). Pattinson is scheduled to film at the school again today and though security is tight, a few fan photos have leaked on to Twitter. We’re still waiting to see what Kristen Stewart will look like — she cut off her hair and dyed it for the Joan Jett bio pic she just finished, so she’ll be wearing a wig in the third Twilight instalment.

Following in the footsteps of Robert Pattinson, who did a nude love scene as the young artist Salvador Dali in the independent filmLittle Ashes prior to Twilight, his co-star Kristen Stewart has also bared all in an independent film called Welcome to The Rileys. In it, she portrays a teenage lap dancer/prostitute named Mallory. Her co-star, James Gandolfini, plays a man who leaves home after his teenage daughter’s death and winds up staying with Mallory, who likes to walk around naked, in her apartment. Stewart is hoping that Twilight fans will be excited about the film, saying: “It’s an independent movie that nobody would normally see and now it’s like, Oh, let’s go see Bella in this stripper movie; it’ll be crazy!” She added: “Working with James Gandolfini and (co-star) Melissa Leo, who is just incredible, was the most fruitful life-changing experience on a movie that I’ve ever had. It was just the hardest subject matter I’ve ever had to deal with — I play a very broken young girl who is a runaway. She’s a street kid. She’s working in a strip club and James Gandolfini’s character is just as dead inside as she is — and they wake each other up.”

The UK newspaper The Mirror has published a fake interview with Robert Pattinson, in which he claims to be single. In addition to spelling Twilight incorrectly in the headline, they claim Pattinson is in Vancouver filming The Twilight Saga:New Moon (he’s filming The Twilight Saga: Eclipse). The article quotes Pattinson as saying, “I don’t have a girlfriend. I don’t know why. You always think you’re going to get more girls after you’ve made a movie and it never happens. You sit there and you’re like ‘I’m a big movie star and I want to go out with some models’ but I don’t know why that doesn’t happen.” Pattinson is, in fact, dating one of his Twilight co-stars (early reports said it was Nikki Reed, but currently evidence points to Pattinson’s leading lady, Kristen Stewart), according to (more…)

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed and Ashley Greene were among the Twilightcast members to arrive in Vancouver last week to begin rehearsals for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which begins shooting today. Over the weekend, Pattinson and Stewart were spotted getting cozy at the Kings of Leon concert on Saturday, and enjoyed dinner at the Miku sushi restaurant with a few of their co-stars. “They’ve decided to be more public about going out now. They’re not boyfriend and girlfriend, but they’ve definitely hooked up,” an insider told Us Weekly. Jennie Garth, who’s married to actor Peter Facinelli (who plays Carlisle Cullen), told the Daily News that Pattinson is definitely dating one of his co-stars, but wouldn’t say which one, because “that would be breaking my promise.”